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SIR  JOHN  MOORE,  THE  HERO  OF  CORUN- 
NA,  WAS  BORN  IN  THE  YEAR  I761  IN  A 
BACK  ROOM  OF  THIS  OLD  HOUSE  AT  THE 
CORNER  OF  TRONGATE  AND  NELSON  STREET 


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THIS  CLOSE  WAS  SITUATED  ON  THE  WEST 

SIDE  OF   THE   HIGH   STREET  ABOVE   BELL 

STREET.      IT  WAS  ERECTED  IN  THE  EARLY 

EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY. 


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THE  TONTINE  WAS  ORIGINALLY  AN  ASSEM- 
BLY HALL  ERECTED  BY  A  COMPANY  IN  1 782 
ON  THE  TONTINE  SYSTEM.  THE  CROSS 
STEEPLE  IS  ALL  THAT  REMAINS  OF  THE 
OLD  TOLBOOTH  BUILT  IN  1626,  WHICH  DID 
DUTY  FIRST  AS  COUNCIL  CHAMBER  AND 
LATER  AS  PRISON.  NEAR  BY  STOOD  THE 
OLD  CROSS,  REMOVED  IN  1 659. 


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THE  MOST  PROMINENT  FEATURE  OF  THE 
OLD  VILLAGE  OF  GORBALS  WAS  THE  BAR- 
ONIAL HALL  OF  SIR  GEORGE  ELPHINSTONE, 
PROVOST  OF  GLASGOW  IN  1605,  AND  LORD 
JUSTICE  CLERK  1625-1628.  THIS  HOUSE 
WAS  SUBSEQUENTLY  ADDED  TO  BY  VIS- 
COUNT BELHAVEN  WHO  ACQUIRED  THE  ES- 
TATE FROM  THE  ELPHINSTONE  FAMILY. 


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VI. 

THE  OLD  BUILDING  KNOWN  AS  THE  DUKE's 
LODGING  WAS  SITUATED  ABOUT  THE  SPOT 
WHERE  DRYGATE  AND  ROTTENROW  MEET 
THE  HIGH  STREET.  THE  PROPERTY  OF 
THE  STEWARTS  OF  MINTO,  IT  WAS  BOUGHT 
IN  1605  BY  THE  MONTROSE  FAMILY  WHO 
OWNED  IT  UNTIL  1746.  IT  TOOK  ITS  NAME 
FROM  JAMES,  FIRST  DUKE  OF  MONTROSE. 


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VII. 

THE  LAIGH  KIRK  WAS  IN  PRE-REFORMA- 
TION  DAYS  THE  COLLEGIATE  CHURCH  OF 
ST  MARY,  STANDING  IN  TRONGATE.  ON 
THE  REMOVAL  OF  ITS  PAPAL  FURNISHINGS 
AND  DECORATIONS  IT  WAS  CALLED  THE 
LAIGH  KIRK,  i.e.,  THE  LOW  OR  PROTES- 
TANT CHURCH,  AND  AFTERWARDS,  FROM 
ITS  PROXIMITY  TO  THE  PUBLIC  WEIGHING 
PLACE,  THE  TRON  KIRK. 


VIII. 

THE  SUGAR  HOUSE  IN  THE  GALLOWGATE, 
KNOWN  AS  THE  EASTER  SUGAR  HOUSE  TO 
DISTINGUISH  IT  FROM  THE  OTHERS,  WAS 
BUILT  ABOUT  1669.  BY  THE  MIDDLE  OF 
THE  EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  THE  GLASGOW 
SUGAR  REFINING  TRADE  HAD  BECOME  EX- 
CEEDINGLY PROSPEROUS,  NO  LESS  THAN 
FOUR  OTHER  REFINERIES  FLOURISHING 
IN  THE  CITY. 


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IX. 


THIS  COURT  ENTERED  FROM  NO.  I57  HIGH 
STREET.  THE  HOUSE  HAS  BEEN  IDENTI- 
FIED AS  THE  FAMILY  MANSION  OF  GEORGE 
PORTERFIELD,  PROVOST  OF  GLASGOW  IN 
1645.  IT  WAS  KNOWN  AS  THE  HOUSE  OF 
PORTERFIELD. 


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X. 

THIS  OLD  HOUSE  WAS  SITUATED  AT  THE 
CORNER  OF  STOCKWELLSTREET  AND  GREAT 
CLYDE  STREET.  THE  OLDER  PART  OF  THE 
BUILDING,  SHOWN  BEHIND  THE  OTHER, 
IS  SAID  TO  HAVE  BEEN  THE  OLD  CUSTOM 
HOUSE,  WHICH  STOOD  NEAR  THE  BRIDGE 
OF  GLASGOW. 


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IN  THE  TRONGATE  STOOD  FROM  THE  FIF- 
TEENTH CENTURY  THE  TOWN  WEIGHING 
MACHINE,  OR  TRON,  AND  HERE  ALSOAVERB 
SITUATED  MANY  OF  THE  HOUSES  OF  THE 
WEALTHIER  BURGESSES.  THE  ORIGINAL 
NAME  OF  THE  STREET  WAS  ST  THANEW'S 
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XII. 

THE  SALTMARKET  WAS  FORMERLY  KNOWN 
AS  THE  fuller's  ROAD  (WALCARGAIT)  ON 
ACCOUNTOF  THE  SCOURERSOF  CLOTH  WHO 
PLIED  THEIR  TRADE  ON  THE  BANKS  OF 
THE  MOLENDINAR  BURN.  IN  LATER  TIMES 
THE  SALT  MERCHANTS  HAD  THEIR  BOOTHS 
THERE  AND  FROM  THEM  THE  STREET  HAS 
TAKEN  ITS  NAME. 


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XIII. 

AN  OLD  CLOSE  SITUATED  ON  THE  NORTH 
SIDE  OF  THE  GALLOWGATE.  HERE  STOOD 
SOME  OF  THE  LAST  SURVIVING  OLD  WOOD- 
EN HOUSES  IN  GLASGOW,  MOST  OF  WHICH 
WERE  SWEPT  AWAY  BY  THE  GREAT  FIRES 
OF  THE  YEARS  1652  AND  1677. 


XIV. 

THE  HIGH  STREET,  OR  GREAT  STREET, 
WAS  THE  OLDEST  AND  FOR  SEVERAL  CEN- 
TURIES THE  MOST  IMPORTANT  STREET  IN 
GLASGOW.  THE  ILLUSTRATION  GIVES  A 
REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLEOF  ONE  OF  THE 
OLD  COURTS  ENTERING  FROM  IT. 


XV. 

STANDING  AT  THE  SOUTHERN  END  OF  THE 
OLD  GLASGOW  BRIDGE  THE  OLDER  NAME 
OF  GORBALS  WAS  BRIDGEND.  DURING  THE 
EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  THE  VILLAGE  WAS 
LARGELY  OCCUPIED  BY  WEAVERS.  IT  HAS 
NOW  BEEN  SWALLOWED  UP  BY  GOVAN,  AL- 
THOUGH THE  NAME  OF  THE  PARISH  STILL 
SURVIVES. 


XVI. 

THE  LANDS  ADJOINING  THE  GALLOWMUIR 
WERE  ACQUIRED  IN  1705  BY  MR  JOHN 
WALKINSHAW,  WHO  BUILT  THE  VILLAGE 
OF  BORROWFIELD  OR  BARROWFIELD,  NOW 
BRIDGETON.  THE  ESTATE  BECAME  IN  1 724 
THE  PROPERTY  OF  THE  TOWN,  WHO  SOLD 
IT  A  FEW  YEARS  LATER  FOR  FEUING  PUR- 
POSES TO  JOHN  ORR  OF  BARROWFIELD. 


XVII. 

A  PICTURESQUE  ALTHOUGH  DILAPIDATED 
CLOSE  WHICH  ENTERED  FROM  THE  WEST 
SIDE  OF  THE  HIGH  STREET.  IT  CONTAINED 
IN  ITS  BETTER  DAYS  THE  RESIDENCES  OF 
SMALL  BURGESSES.  THE  NAME,  "  FIDD- 
LER'S CLOSE,"  IS  SAID  TO  BE  DERIVED  FROM 
THE  CALLING  OF  SOME  OF  ITS  EARLY  OCCU- 
PANTS. 


XVIII. 

AN  OLD  CLOSE  IN  THE  SALTMARKET  IN 
WHICH  A  FEW  WOODEN-FRONTED  HOUSES 
SURVIVED  UNTIL  A  LATE  DATE.  IN  THE 
EARLY  NINETEENTH  CENTURY  ALL  THE 
HARDWARE  MERCHANTS  HAD  THEIR  PLA- 
CES OF  BUSINESS  IN  THIS  LOCALITY. 


XIX. 

THE  GALLOWGATE  FORMERLY  LED  OUT  TO 
A  TRACT  OF  WASTE  GROUND  KNOWN  AS 
GALLOW  MOOR  WHERE  EVIL-DOERS  WERE 
EXECUTED.  THE  NAME  OF  THE  STREET 
DATES  BACK  FOR  FULLY  FOUR  CENTURIES. 


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XX. 

THESE  OLD  HOUSES,  BOTH  OF  WHICH  WERE 
OCCUPIED  AS  TAVERNS,  STOOD  NEAR  THE 
CROSS  ON  THE  WEST  SIDE  OF  THE  HIGH 
STREET.  ON  THE  BUILDING  TO  THE  RIGHT 
IS  SEEN  A  SPECIMEN  OF  ONE  OF  THE  AR- 
CADES OR  PIAZZAS,  WHICH  IN  THE  EAR- 
LY EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  WERE  TO  BE 
FOUND  IN  THE  FRONT  OF  ALMOST  EVERY 
BUILDING  NEAR  THE  CROSS. 


XXI. 

THE  DRYGATE  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  ITS  CLOSE- 
NESS TO  THE  CATHEDRAL  WAS  FORMERLY 
OCCUPIED  CHIEFLY  BYPREBENDAL  MANSES 
AND  THE  RESIDENCES  OF  VARIOUS  CHURCH 
OFFICIALS.  THE  BUILDING  SHOWN  TO  THE 
LEFT  OF  THE  DRAWING  WAS  AT  ONE  TIME 
A  HOUSE  OF  CORRECTION. 


XXII. 

BELL  STREET,  OR  BELL's  WYND,  BETWEEN 
THE  HIGH  STREET  AND  CANDLERIGGS,  WAS 
BUILT  TOWARDS  THE  END  OF  THE  SEVEN- 
TEENTH CENTURY.  IN  IT  FOR  MANY  YEARS 
W^AS  A  WELL-KNOWN  MEAT  MARKET  AND 
LATER  THE  POLICE  OFFICE. 


XXIII. 

THE  BRIDGEGATE  WAS  UNTIL  THE  EARLY 
EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  ONE  OF  THE  MOST 
FASHIONABLE  QUARTERS  OF  THE  CITY  ;  IN 
IT  RESIDED  THE  WEALTHIER  MERCHANTS 
AND  EVEN  THE  NOBILITY.  THE  STEEPLE 
SHOWN  IN  THE  ILLUSTRATION  IS  THAT  OF 
THE  MERCHANTS'  HALL,  ERECTED  IN  1659. 


XXIV. 
M'PHERSON  STREET  TAKES  ITS  NAME  FROM 

JOHN  m'pherson  of  blantyre,on  whose 

LAND  THE  STREET  WAS  BUILT,  AND  WHOSE 
COAT  OF  ARMS  IS  TO  BE  SEEN  ON  THE  HOUSE 
AT  THE  SOUTH  CORNER  FACING  THE  HIGH 
STREET.  MANY  OF  THE  HOUSES  IN  THIS 
STREET  WERE  DEMOLISHED  WHEN  THE 
EAST  SIDE  OF  THE  HIGH  STREET  WAS 
REBUILT. 


XXV. 

STOCKWELL — THE  WELL  PROTECTED  BY 
STOCKS  OR  STAKES — WAS  IN  OLDEN  TIMES 
ONE  OF  THE  CHIEF  SOURCES  OF  WATER 
SUPPLY  FOR  FISHERMEN  AND  BOATMEN 
ON  ACCOUNT  OF  ITS  PROXIMITY  TO  THE 
RIVER.  ALTHOUGH  THE  WELL  ITSELF  WAS 
REMOVED  MANY  YEARS  AGO  ITS  NAME 
STILL  SURVIVES. 


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